Sanders, 25, who was 16 when the Jan. 11, 1999 shooting took place, said flatly that he wasn't involved in the killing..

Prosecutors have told the jury that Temple killed his pregnant wife and that his story to police — that a burglar broke into their Katy home and shot her — is a cover-up. The defense has worked to bring out details of Sander's past including marijuana use, to cast doubt on the prosecution's case against Temple.

While presenting his case, defense attorney Dick DeGuerin told jurors that Sanders had access to two 12-gauge shotguns, one of which was found with a single buckshot shotgun shell that had been fired.

Belinda Temple was killed by a single shotgun blast to the back of the head. She was found in the master closet of the couple's Katy home.

In addition to raising questions about Sanders, DeGuerin is expected to argue that another neighbor, now deceased, had access to a shotgun and confronted Belinda Temple in the days before her death.

The state and the defense rested late in the afternoon and are expected to make closing arguments Wednesday in visiting state District Judge Doug Shaver's court.

DeGuerin worked to show that Sanders, and several of his friends, were in the neighborhood and smoking marijuana when the shooting took place.

Sanders also said that several of his friends burglarized a house and stole two shotguns which they shot in a field days before the killing. Called by prosecutors to rebut DeGuerin's theory, Sanders' testimony today was the last in the trial.

Earlier in the day, in a typically demonstrative fashion, Assistant District Attorney Kelly Siegler brought the back door and a wooden hutch from Temple's home in to the courtroom. She showed jurors where the door would have hit the hutch if Temple had burst through the door as he testified he did.

Jurors stood as they watched Siegler and the scene investigator point out dings in the metal door that didn't match up with the hutch.

In cross-examination, DeGuerin pointed out that the door would have also hit a doorstop that police didn't measure or save during their investigation.

The day began with Siegler grilling Temple about details in his testimony to jurors Monday.

Notably, Siegler yelled at Temple as she asked how a burglar could be fast enough to get past Temple's watchdog, break the back door window, get in, get upstairs and shoot Belinda Temple in the time allotted.

"That's not for me to figure out," Temple said.

"You're the one saying a burglar killed your wife," Siegler yelled across the courtroom.

Temple said a burglar broke the window of his back door and rummaged through the family's belongings.

Investigators became suspicious of Temple because the glass appeared to have been strewn inside the house after the door had been opened and none of the couple's valuables appeared to be missing.

Siegler used testimony from the five-week trial to question Temple about his wife in the months before her death.

Temple denied arguing over credit card bills. He denied talking about getting separate checking accounts and he denied that he and Belinda didn't speak to each other for three months in 1998.

Siegler also asked him why he didn't have blood on his hands, clothes or knees if he checked Belinda's pulse in her neck, as she lied in a pool of blood.

Temple said he didn't know, and that he had a hand on her back as he knelt down.

In the days after the shooting, Temple fell under more scrutiny after police learned that he was having an affair with another teacher at Alief High School, where he coached.

Temple married his mistress, Heather Scott, about two and a half years after the shooting.